.... that, once this case is over, McBride, Gates, Ballmer and the rest of the FUDsters spend 10 years in jail for corruption. I just hope the judges in this case won't just do a "MS-DOJ" and meekly back off. It's time that these people are exposed for who they are.
Oh, I don't know. Maybe because the higher skilled workers will earn higher salaries and pay more taxes.... to pay for more border guards? Just a wild guess, mind you.
[Sigh....] If only we could do it Boolean, hey?:-)
But do tell Eben and Richard that, despite all the dust and noise, we do appreciate what you guys are doing. We will prevail, even if we have to code by flashlight.
(On a positive note: I have demonstrated to our CFO that our organisation of 500+ employees can save a bundle by moving certain apps over to Linux. Feasibility study starting in 2 months, but the PHB's are VERY impressed... I think we're going to win this one!:-)
Hi Bruce. First of all, thanks for all the hard work you guys are putting in -- we appreciate it.
Secondly: the whole purpose of the GPL version X is ensure the Four Freedoms. Question: is it not possible to put a clause in the GPL v3 to make tis quite clear? Something along the lines of "Any funny tricks to circumvent the SPIRIT of the GPL will make it automatically void and the offending entity will be sued for copyright infringement" (I'm sure Eben can put it in the right legalese.) The point is that M$ and Novell got terribly cute with their concoction, basically skating on semantics. Can we not plug that hole?
Why don't the record companies simply encrypt the mp3 files with the consumer's credit card number, and supply a decrypt-play-encrypt program for free? No consumer is going to give his / her credit card number away to others; thus end of "piracy"
"Now, does anyone have anything to say about the Enterprise Linux desktop?"
Sure. I have been running Ubuntu as an enterprise desktop on a corporate Windows LAN for more than a year now. The only thing I had to figure out was how to get apt and wget to talk to the world through our corporate proxy server.
Ubuntu works great. The IT director was bowled over when I showed him what I have done, and became very quiet and thoughtful when I mentioned the price. He is now running on one of his corporate laptops:-)
... just charge 0.5 cents for sending an email. Once Joe Sixpack gets a bill for $5000 for emails sent by his Windows bot, a.k.a. PC, he will start to take security seriously. His first question is going to be" What can I do to stop this?", and then maybe he'll listen to the advice we've been trying for years to get through to him.
Secondly, even if spammers send out emails from their own accounts, charging for it would quickly raise the bar to the point that it's no longer profitable.
They cannot distinguish between "End" users (i.e. Joe Sixpack) and developers. Hence they build a product like Access, assuming all end-users are clever enough to build their own applications. Joe Sixpack becomes a "database designer" and before long works on "mission critical" apps, where he really stuffs it up. Then some poor tech has to un-fix everything and try to explain to the PHB's that little Access databases and macro-infested Excel spreadsheet do NOT make an Information System. PHB's don't believe the tech, and then appoints Carol Clueless, another "Access Expert" (TM), and the some ol' starts again.
MS's biggest sin, to my mind, is fostering the clueless image that point-n-click == systems design.
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Go to babelfish and get it translated:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Funny, but I can't figure out anything really. Mabe some Japanese speakers can help us out here?
51% Mozilla http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/Stats.phtml
.... that, once this case is over, McBride, Gates, Ballmer and the rest of the FUDsters spend 10 years in jail for corruption. I just hope the judges in this case won't just do a "MS-DOJ" and meekly back off. It's time that these people are exposed for who they are.
Oh, I don't know. Maybe because the higher skilled workers will earn higher salaries and pay more taxes.... to pay for more border guards? Just a wild guess, mind you.
Not 5 billion $
Special price is $699, remember?
[Sigh....] If only we could do it Boolean, hey? :-)
But do tell Eben and Richard that, despite all the dust and noise, we do appreciate what you guys are doing. We will prevail, even if we have to code by flashlight.
(On a positive note: I have demonstrated to our CFO that our organisation of 500+ employees can save a bundle by moving certain apps over to Linux. Feasibility study starting in 2 months, but the PHB's are VERY impressed... I think we're going to win this one! :-)
Hi Bruce. First of all, thanks for all the hard work you guys are putting in -- we appreciate it. Secondly: the whole purpose of the GPL version X is ensure the Four Freedoms. Question: is it not possible to put a clause in the GPL v3 to make tis quite clear? Something along the lines of "Any funny tricks to circumvent the SPIRIT of the GPL will make it automatically void and the offending entity will be sued for copyright infringement" (I'm sure Eben can put it in the right legalese.) The point is that M$ and Novell got terribly cute with their concoction, basically skating on semantics. Can we not plug that hole?
You mean like Synaptic on Ubuntu, right?
Didn't MS make a big stink last year about how OpenOffice was not friendly to disabled people? And now....?
"Bubble sort would have beat his mergesort" My view exactly. Maybe someone should try a shoot-out using the same dataset?
Downgrade the Dell BIOS to A02, and Linux runs fine. You can download the BIOS flash from Dell.... but it only works in Windows! Duh.
"I can't think of three words more "anti-slashdot" than that ;)"
Microsoft Windows Innovation?
Why don't the record companies simply encrypt the mp3 files with the consumer's credit card number, and supply a decrypt-play-encrypt program for free? No consumer is going to give his / her credit card number away to others; thus end of "piracy"
"Hello World!"
[Ducks and runs]
"Now, does anyone have anything to say about the Enterprise Linux desktop?" Sure. I have been running Ubuntu as an enterprise desktop on a corporate Windows LAN for more than a year now. The only thing I had to figure out was how to get apt and wget to talk to the world through our corporate proxy server. Ubuntu works great. The IT director was bowled over when I showed him what I have done, and became very quiet and thoughtful when I mentioned the price. He is now running on one of his corporate laptops :-)
"Name 1 (ONE) programming language or software that you can run on Linux that can NOT be run on Windows XP. ..."
bash
[Ducks and runs]
Wot, on Slashdot? Over Xmas? You must be new here :-)
"Now show me a piece of 8 year old code that will compile on a current distro" print "Hello World!" [Ducks and runs] :-)
... just charge 0.5 cents for sending an email. Once Joe Sixpack gets a bill for $5000 for emails sent by his Windows bot, a.k.a. PC, he will start to take security seriously. His first question is going to be" What can I do to stop this?", and then maybe he'll listen to the advice we've been trying for years to get through to him. Secondly, even if spammers send out emails from their own accounts, charging for it would quickly raise the bar to the point that it's no longer profitable.
Here's your answer: http://www.ubuntu.com/ I dumped Novell last week for Ubuntu. Go ahead, it will make you feel miles better.
Very good description of the problem. I sent it on to Groklaw. Maybe you should consider posting it there too?
Link here. Make of it what you want. http://toorg.blogspot.com/
They cannot distinguish between "End" users (i.e. Joe Sixpack) and developers. Hence they build a product like Access, assuming all end-users are clever enough to build their own applications. Joe Sixpack becomes a "database designer" and before long works on "mission critical" apps, where he really stuffs it up. Then some poor tech has to un-fix everything and try to explain to the PHB's that little Access databases and macro-infested Excel spreadsheet do NOT make an Information System. PHB's don't believe the tech, and then appoints Carol Clueless, another "Access Expert" (TM), and the some ol' starts again. MS's biggest sin, to my mind, is fostering the clueless image that point-n-click == systems design.
...I can do on my Linux box??? I don't understand why this is "innovation"?